diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yaml b/.github/workflows/publish.yaml
index 3d4f4a6f7..01263fd39 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yaml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ on:
       # make binaries which may be ahead of releases to use in CI jobs
       - "ci-bins*"
     tags: # run this also on release candidates
-      - "[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]*"
+      - "v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]*"
 
 jobs:
   publish: